Disclaimer: Unfortunately, I do NOT own 'Arrow' or anything from the DC Universe!

A/N: I've always wondered how Pre-Island Oliver, Sarah Lance, and other characters from 'Arrow' would react to Oliver as 'The Hood' – as I'm sure many have – so I've decided to write this fanfic. Hopefully, you'll all enjoy it! Everyone from the present is from Episode 1x13 Betrayal.

Characters: Pre-Island Oliver 'Ollie' Queen (22), Sarah Lance (20), Present-Day Oliver Queen (27), Dinah 'Laurel' Lance (27/28), Tommy Merlyn (27/28), Thea Queen (18), Future Oliver (45) & Robert Queen (49).

Queen's Gambit – 2007

Robert Queen was worried. He was worried that the Queen's Gambit wouldn't survive through the terrifying storm that it was currently ploughing through. Robert was worried that the storm would take away the little time he had left to right his wrongs.

"The storm's a category two," a crew member told Robert and added: "The Captain's recommending we head back."

"All right, inform the crew," Robert agreed, just as Oliver came out of his bedroom.

"Are we in trouble?" Oliver asked curiously.

"One of us is," Robert said which made Oliver grin as Sarah Lance leaned against the wall wearing only a thin black bathrobe.

"Ollie!" Sarah called out. "Where do you keep the bottle opener on this thing?"

"I'll be there in a minute, Sarah," Oliver smiled at the younger sister of his girlfriend, Dinah 'Laurel' Lance.

That was when Oliver suddenly disappeared in a flash of bright light, shocking both Robert and Sarah.

"Oliver!" Robert shouted, before he also disappeared in a flash of bright light.

"Mr Queen!" Sarah cried out, glancing around her for any sign of the two Queens, only to disappear a few seconds later…

Queen Mansion – 2013

"Hey, Speedy!" Oliver smiled at his younger sister, Thea, who had just gotten back from hours of sorting through numerous files and was currently lying down on the couch.

"Just thinking of how pleasant jail would've been," Thea remarked sarcastically, which almost made Oliver chuckle at his little sister. "What are you even doing here? Don't you have that nightclub that you love to hang out in?"

This made Oliver sigh, for there was a part of him that was begging to tell Thea the truth about him as 'The Hood', and how his nightclub acted as his hideout. On the other hand, a stronger part of Oliver told him that telling Thea would put her into more danger than she was already in – danger that Oliver might not be able to protect his little sister from no matter how hard he tried.

"I don't love hanging out there," Oliver stated, faking a small grin on his face. "It's just… really busy over there."

Thea resisted the urge to roll her eyes at him, something that Oliver managed to spot. It was one of the many of the things that he learned on Liàn Yù: How to detect simple emotions from the tiniest of clues i.e. eye rolling.

"By the way, how's Laurel doing?" Oliver asked while trying to hide his concern for his ex-girlfriend.

"She's been better," Thea smiled softly, knowing that Oliver was trying to hide his concern for Laurel, and was failing miserably.

(Thea): Just tell her how you feel, Ollie!

Suddenly, Oliver felt his cell phone vibrate within his pocket, so he took it out and saw that it was Tommy who was calling him.

"Hey, Tommy," Oliver greeted as cheerfully as he could, only to internally grow worried once Tommy started speaking in a hurried and terrified tone of voice.

"Hey, man! Listen, Laurel's missing… again," Tommy explained rapidly. "I mean, I've checked EVERYWHERE for her from work to our favourite places-"

"Tommy, slow down," Oliver soothed calmly, although he was desperate to change into his costume and find Laurel. "When did you last see her?"

"Yesterday night," Tommy panted and began to explain further: "I remember that she was tired from working all day, so she decided to-"

Unbeknownst to Oliver, Tommy was unable to finish that sentence, because he had suddenly disappeared in a flash of bright light.

"Tommy! Tommy!" Oliver yelled, which grabbed Thea's attention to what was going on.

"Oliver, what's wrong?" Thea questioned, noticing his incredibly dark facial expression. "What's wrong with Tommy?"

Oliver took a deep breath to calm himself down and was about to explain the situation, when he also disappeared in a flash of bright light followed a second later by Thea.

Queen Mansion – 2031

Oliver groaned slightly once he had landed on the floor of what 'seemed' to be the living room of the Queen Mansion, although there were many things that were different, such as the various pictures of a man in what seemed to be his late-thirties whom practically looked as if he could of been his twin. But there was a picture that rested on the coffee table that caught Oliver's attention, for it was a picture of what seemed to him and a blonde Laurel smiling warmly with a cute toddler in the woman's arms.

"Ollie!" the sound of a young woman called out, causing Oliver to swiftly turn around and face the woman, only to gasp in shock at who he was seeing: Sarah Lance.

"Sarah?" Oliver gasped in disbelief that Laurel's long-dead sister was standing right in front of him, while Sarah stared at him with confusion at the man that was in front of her.

"Is that you, Ollie?" Sarah questioned uncertainly, for the man in front of her couldn't be her Oliver Queen, but the evidence suggested otherwise. "What happened to you?"

However, before Oliver could even answer Sarah, Ollie rushed over and fiercely hugged her. Ollie didn't even notice his future-self narrowing his eyes at the person he was before everything changed.

"What happened? Why are we inside the mansion?" Ollie asked, surveying the familiar surroundings in confusion to how they got here. That's when Ollie noticed Oliver standing there, and gaped at what he was seeing.

"W-Who are you?" Ollie asked fearfully at his 'doppelganger', before grabbing a nearby lamp and threateningly waving it at Oliver. "Answer me!"

At this, Oliver gritted his teeth and took a step towards what seemed to be his terrified past-self, who took a step back while protecting Sarah with his other arm. Nonetheless, Oliver decided to remain calm and try not to provoke what seemed to be his past-self.

"Calm down, Ollie. I'm NOT going to hurt you," Oliver reassured gently, raising his hands as sign that he was going to hurt… himself?

"W-Why should I-I trust you?" Ollie stammered in terror and added: "Whoever you are!"

"Listen... Ollie," Oliver began cautiously and continued: "I'm not going to hurt you or Sarah. Thea and I-?"

Ollie growled angrily at Oliver once the latter had mentioned Thea, who was only twelve years old in Ollie's point of view, and tightened his grip around the lamp.

"What have you done with Thea!?" Ollie demanded in anger, which made Oliver face-palm himself for even mentioning his/their sister, since this was the reaction that the latter was getting. "Answer me!"

Ollie attempted to hit Oliver in the head with the lamp, only for Oliver to dodge it and twist — but not break — Ollie's hand to force him to drop the lamp, before Oliver swiftly put his past-self in a pronating wrist-lock.

"Let go of him!" Sarah shouted, while she tried to make Oliver let Ollie go by repeatedly smacking him in the back, much to Oliver's slight discomfort.

"Get off of him!" Thea growled lowly, before unintentionally pushing Sarah aside into the arms of a crying Laurel.

"Sarah!" Laurel cried in happiness, while she enveloped Sarah in a bone-crushing hug, and was reluctant to let go. "How-?"

"Laurel!" Ollie, who had just been released from the wrist-lock, grinned awkwardly at the fact that he had been caught with Sarah. He then noticed Tommy. "And Tommy. What are you guys doing here?"

Tommy glanced back-and-forth between the two Olivers and Sarah Lance, and rubbed his eyes for this had to be dream. There was no way that Laurel's dead sister and a younger version of his best friend were in the same room with them!

"What happened?" Robert asked in puzzlement, as he surveyed the living room of what was definitely the Queen Mansion, albeit with quite a few changes to it.

Robert then noticed the two Olivers in the room, along with what seemed to be an older Thea, as well as Laurel and Tommy. To say that the situation was a huge mind-fuck would be the understatement of the century.

"Dad?" Thea said, as tears started to form in her eyes and fall down her cheeks, before she charged towards Robert and wrapped her arms around him.

"Shh, Thea. It's okay... It's okay," Robert reassured Thea, who dared not to let go of her father for even a second.

However, Oliver was stared at his father, while wearing his expressionless mask. It took almost all of his willpower not to rush over to his father and hug him like Thea was doing, while at the same time apologize profusely for his part in his father's death. So instead, Oliver just continued staring at Robert and gave his father a gentle smile once Thea had hesitantly let go of their father.

"You look... different," Robert commented, having noticed how dark the future version of his son's eyes were, before he took Oliver into his arms. "I love you, son."

This almost made Oliver break down, as Ollie and Sarah looked at the scene in front of them in confusion. That's when everyone noticed what seemed to be yet another Oliver Queen enter the living room, although this Oliver looked somewhat older than Present-Day Oliver. However, the thing that was noticeable of this Oliver (especially by Thea, Oliver and Laurel) was that there was considerably less darkness within his eyes compared to Present-Day Oliver, and had a grin on the face which was a lot less forced.

"Wait!" Ollie said loudly. "There are another two of me!?"

Future-Oliver chuckled at how his younger self was acting and began to explain about where they were and why.

"You're probably wondering why you're all here, right?" Future-Oliver asked, to which everyone nodded. "To put it simply: You're in the future."

At this news, Ollie fainted and almost hit the floor, if it weren't for both Sarah and Laurel, both of whom placed Ollie onto the couch as everyone tried to process the information.

"The future?" Tommy gulped. "How far into the future?"

"The year is 2031," Robert answered unexpectantly and added: "I checked a nearby calender."

Future-Oliver smiled sadly at Robert, since he vividly remembered how observant his father was and how this trait was what helped him survive on the island.

"The reason why you're here is because we wanted to show you something," Future-Oliver explained briefly.

"You us what?" Oliver questioned suspiciously, for he had a slight idea where this was going and hoped it wouldn't go there.

Unfortunately for Present-Day Oliver, Future-Oliver said the exact thing that the former had feared the latter would say.

"Our time on and after the island," Future-Oliver replied, which made Oliver curse inside his mind. They couldn't know about him being 'The Hood' and what they had experience on that purgatory of an island. "So in other words: The truth."

Everyone seemed to react differently at the fact that they would find out what had happened to Oliver on the island, with Thea biting her lip to conceal her excitement and curiosity at how Oliver had become so scarred both mentally and physically. Tommy and Laurel glanced nervously at each other, for they were also curious to what had happened to the Oliver they once knew, yet some part of their minds didn't want to find out the details. Even Sarah, Ollie (who had woken up two minutes ago) and Robert seemed interested at the prospect of seeing how the Oliver that they knew changed into Present-Day Oliver – a man they barely seemed to recognize.

"Let's get started then," Present-Day Oliver stated through gritted teeth, as Future-Oliver switched on the large flat-screen television, and everyone got comfortable on the couch.

A/N: If you want me to continue this fanfic, don't forget to review on your thoughts! I also might add some more characters including the future versions of characters ;D